The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (BRAHM), currently under construction in downtown Blowing Rock will open October 1, 2011. The Museum will display selections from its permanent collection along with rotating exhibits to accomplish its mission to promote the visual arts, history, and heritage of the mountains of North Carolina.

Successful serial entrepreneurs are rare, but after a lucrative 15 year Triangle career in the technology arena, Sean Harrison spends his days successfully running Alliance Medical Ministry, the organization co-founded to provide health care to working uninsured Wake County residents.

The Clean Water Management Trust, a fund to protect land around vulnerable streams, wetlands, lakes, and watersheds, has been cut by eighty percent for North Carolina. Trust funds used for conservation purposes, including the National Heritage Trust Fund and Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, have recently been hacked for land acquisition and other economic ventures.

Ligon Broadus Flynn, the architect who laid the design template for modern coastal architecture in North Carolina, is characterized as an idealist and creator of humane space with deep connections to nature.